I understood this and think it’s accurate.

That’s what I meant. Thanks for the clarification.

Beliefs. I’ve changed my mind too, but it seems to be the exception.

That people can change through conversations. It’s tough to accept, but most people only change when forced to.

See, you get it.

You know what is best for you. Good luck.

Convincing someone that they hold illogical positions takes time. If they value your friendship, then they should respect your feelings and at least be open to the conversation. It took me years to deprogram my mother. It took patience and a lot of compassion to slowly change her mind. If he is amicable, it may not be a lost cause. Eventually, Musk’s actions and peer pressure from the public may bring him around. It can happen.

That being said, if he harbors white supremacist views and is uncompromising, it might be best to excise that toxicity from your life. Only you know the contextual reality of this situation. Can his mind be changed? Or is this a lost cause?

If it’s the latter, be compassionate and let them know that you will always be available if they are willing to change their mind.

This is so true, and why I posted this video to help us understand it. I went through this with a family member and it’s exhausting.

Just posted Jeffrey Sachs’s address at the EU Parliament about this.

I crave epiphanies. Discovering experiences or knowledge that I didn’t know I needed.

I can’t imagine living without music.

Education. Critical thinking will now be taught in elementary school. Economics in middle school. And philosophy in high school.

Seconding Internet Comment Etiquette. Information as art.

The Amazing Bulk.

I had no idea this community existed. Subscribed!

Not doing the Hokey Pokey correctly. Yes, corporal punishment was still a thing. Yes, it mentally scarred me.

If we’re not in a simulation then we have to be prepared for the fact that panpsychism is real, which is another reason we need universal healthcare.

That’s the simulation buffering. I won’t go into the math, because I don’t understand it, but as the universe expands, the quantum field is stretched. This requires more and more memory to access specific data. Every conscious thought, by an increasingly populated universe, contributes to this expansion and destabilization of memory. This entropy requires the simulation to compartmentalize data to make memory more efficient. It’s why the answer is always on the tip of your tongue. Eventually the connections will be so disparate along the quantum field that everyday tasks will take longer and longer.

TLDR: The universe has dementia.